THE WEBSTER CLAIMS
SOLICITOR ■ GENERAL PROCEEDING TO ENGLAND.
Mr W. Salmond, the SolicitorGeneral, will leave for Loudon ou Friday next to represent New Zealand at the special tribunal that has been set up to settle oue way or the other the longstanding Webster claim. It will be remembered that some years ago Dr. Fitchett accompanied Sir Joseph Ward to London in connection with this case, and that last year Sir John Findlay, on a similar mission, accompanied Sir Joseph Ward to Loudon,
Until quite recently the special tribunal to deal with this and other cases had not been appointed. Sir Joseph Ward, towards the close of the session of 1910, explained that the claim was oue for ,£500,000, and was made originally by an American whaler, who had settled iu the country years ago and whose successors claimed to be the possessors of certain lands now owned by the Crown, ihe lauds are iu the Auckland province.
The Solicitor-General will probably be absent from New Zealand for about six mouths.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1020, 7 November 1912, Page 4
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170THE WEBSTER CLAIMS Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1020, 7 November 1912, Page 4
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